As AI adoption scales, cost, uptime, and latency become first-class constraints on application architecture. Routing between models or providers is a lever on all three at once. These new Microsoft.Extensions.AI primitives handle it directly: route by message content, fail over when a provider goes down, or build your …

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Let's start with an admission: we all hate BlockOnPossibleDataLoss. It is the bane of a smooth development workflow, as significant schema changes can block deployment because of BlockOnPossibleDataLoss. Having said that, there's more to life than the developer's local loop. In fact, it's arguable that the local loop, …

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We know that slow builds are a consistent theme in feedback from C++ developers. Your feedback helped us to shape GitHub Copilot build performance for Windows, an agent that can trace your build, find bottlenecks, apply optimizations, and measure the result. When using the agent, the clearest outcome is a …

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Set up Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Observability for AI agents running outside AWS: on-premises, on GCP, on Azure, or on developer machines. This walkthrough uses the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) and IAM credentials to route session traces, span metrics, and token usage to the same AgentCore Observability …

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Learn how to automate legacy web applications that need human-like interaction using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool and Strands Agents. This walkthrough covers a reference architecture for an AI-powered digital worker that drives legacy interfaces through secure, isolated browser sessions while preserving human …

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Learn how to build a multi-agent M&A due diligence system on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. This post walks through a reference architecture that combines agent orchestration, knowledge retrieval, and governance controls, then deploys a complete sample you can run in your own AWS account. Link to article: …

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Amazon Quick is now available directly inside Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. These extensions bring connected data access and agentic document editing into the Microsoft 365 apps your teams already use, so you can analyze data, draft content, and reach enterprise knowledge without switching …

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The MSVC Build Tools Preview is updated regularly with the latest features and fixes from the MSVC development team. This post covers updates from the past month, currently targeting the v14.52 release. This encompasses changes across the compiler frontend, backend, linker, standard library, and related tools. Although …

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Understand the Specification Pattern in C#, distinguish domain rules from query criteria and query envelopes, and decide when it fits a modern .NET design. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/08/13/specification-pattern-in-c-a-practical-guide-for-modern-net

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Most of us are familiar with one-to-one agent chats: private, direct interactions where rules are relatively simple. With only you and the agent, each moment has clear intent. You can ask follow-up questions, pause, or restart without worrying about how each exchange affects anyone else. Collaboration in groups works …

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Learn how startups use GPT-5.6 to build faster, more cost-efficient AI agents with smarter model selection and new Responses API capabilities. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/builders-guide-to-gpt-5-6

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Open weight models are having a moment, driven by control, choice, and cost. Hybrid and local AI are now getting serious looks, so JetBrains teamed up with DeepLearning.AI on a free AI Coding Workflows: Hybrid to Local course that covers the ideas and options. The course is now available and uses PyCharm and its AI […] …

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Preview Ultrafast, a new OpenAI API service tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster. Powered by Cerebras, it delivers up to 750 output tokens per second. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/previewing-ultrafast

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OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer to lead its global revenue organization and help businesses realize the full value of AI. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/dali-rajic-chief-revenue-officer

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A developer in DevOps pushes a Kubernetes deployment with no resource limits, a pod running as root explicitly, and a GitHub Actions workflow runs with mutable tags – and it goes straight to production, unnoticed. No quality gate. No IDE warning. No CI failure. An innocuous change, silently shipped, but with high …

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I know, you were probably wandering around today and thinking to yourself, my life would be more complete if there was just a library out there that gave you the developer experience of the tried and true Marten library, but backed by Sqlite so you could just get things done on projects that don’t really … Continue …

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Learn a stable architecture for RAG and embeddings in .NET, connecting ingestion, retrieval, citations, authorization, evaluation, observability, and deletion. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/08/12/rag-and-embeddings-in-net-a-stable-architecture-guide

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Enterprise content is no longer just something people read. AI apps and agents are only as useful as the information they can understand, yet much of the world’s enterprise knowledge is locked in documents, forms, tables, images, audio, and video. The latest Azure Content Understanding updates help developers turn that …

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Enterprise content is no longer just something people consume. As organizations increasingly rely on AI to extract and act on information from documents, images, audio, and video, Azure Content Understanding is expanding support for the GPT-5 series and improving grounding and confidence to deliver greater flexibility, …

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Docker VMM is now available in public beta for Mac and Windows. Learn what this means for performance, stability, and governance and how to try it yourself. Link to article: https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-vmm-public-beta/

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